Android Escape Characer RegEx Power Search

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I would like assistance on how to find any special characters (such as apostrophe) in Android XML file that does not have the escape character “”.

So that i would receive a report when linguist forget to add the “” before such special characters (mainly Quotation marks and Apostrophes).

Thanks!

2

It would be helpful if you provide more information about how these characters should be entered on the bilingual file. Could you please post some right and wrong samples?

3

Here is a string from the xml that shows when we need to know if a excape character is missing:

Il sistema dispone di %1$d dispositivi che saranno inutilizzabili dopo l\’eliminazione del sistema. Sarà necessario aggiungere nuovamente tali dispositivi a un sistema per utilizzarli.

The above string would not have the string ID showing in TRADOS but included just in case it helps.

We are trying to figure out a way to know if a apostrophe or quote is missing the “” (backslash). So when we run the tool for Regex it will flag these that don’t have it.

Thanks!

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The following searches should help you:

Missing escape character before apostrophe:
Target: ' -\'
Search mode: Simple
PowerSearch: On

Missing escape character before opening or closing quotes
Target: """" -"\"""
Search mode: Simple
PowerSearch: On
Normalize Native Characters: On (to find all types of quotes)